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Name: Jake Simmons
Post Office: Haskell, Oklahoma
Date of Birth: September 22, 1865
Place of Birth: Fort Washita in Choctaw Country
Father: James Simmons
Place of Birth:
Information on father:
Mother: Lucy Perryman (Gentry) Simmons
Place of birth:
Information on mother: Part Indian (Creek) and part colored
Field Worker:

My parents came to Oklahoma from Alabama, in 1832.  They came from Tuskegee, Alabama, in wagons drawn by ox teams.  We did not take part in the runs.  We were citizens and got allotments.  We engaged mostly in hunting and fishing and did some farming.  I farm and raise livestock.

We were living near Eufaula when the Asbury Mission was constructed, and I was pretty much associated with Chief ‘Old Sand' Sam CHECOTE, Laka HARJO and Joe PERRYMAN who was my mothers half-brother.

We all went South at the time of the Civil War.  When we came back from the South, we located a the old Tallahassee Mission, which was run by the ROBERTSON Family, that is, Miss Alice Robertson's father and mother ran it and Judge N. B. MOORE was treasurer at that time.

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Joan Case <lcase@manti.com> 02-1999.